WORLD-WIDE EVANCELISM.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 395, 2 January 1909, Page 13

WORLD-WIDE EVANCELISM.

MR. MEYER'S PROJECTED TOUR ROUND THE •WORLD. The -Rev.- F. B, Meyer, the well-known .Baptist leader,' will soon equal General Booth i -; 'in .the . cosmopolitan charaoter of .hisevangel- ,:: istio tours. In March: nest lie, is to conduct: a fortnight's ovangelistio: mission ' among 'the : • British, and American' colonies inConstanti- ■. .Dopki. , In..conversation;, with- 'a Dajly . . News' ■ representative upon-.this project, 'Mr,'' .-.Meyer,"outlined lis- plans for a jotiniey- rbuS'd < tho world.. I ti -J ' ntrai d staying in England," he said, - \tw tho ; meeting of the National Couu-. . . cu- in Swansea ; the first weok in March, and 1 1 shall go to Constantinople-at the. end--of i i March; but that,is only tho beginning of a i • S'uer ■ project.; There nover wero: so. many i : opportunities for preaching the Gospel in the Moslem-world ,as there are to-day, and it-is i v imperative 'that ■wo - should avail ourselves of I the • open door. As I have received urgent -~ . requests. to_visit Singapore and Hong-Kong; I-1 : intend makingfmy visit, to Turkey' a l , steppingstone to these places. ;' ' '.'■■■ J "Then I have it in my heart to meet as I '. many of. the missionaries in China and Japan ' as I:can possibly get together, so I- shall i ■ probably visit the great health resorts in • • e 9 c hof the divisions of • China and in Japan, mcotrng the missionaries in 'conference:' at' :? these places. 'Another thing that idraws me ; v:s£?. Wet that. I ain president, pf the ■ World s Sunday School Association, and I ~ ^;y:- V-*-, ^B China and Japan the supreme need of Sunday School work. H I time my. visit next year I" Shall the 'advantage of beiiig accompanied through China , and Japan by Dr. Darroch; . who has' been doing good work in- those - countries, as the agent of the Sunday School /,,;v',;JJnion;",';.-:-H- ? ■' .My . primary object is to endeavour: to \ \ ■ .wintribnte 'sbinething to the evangelical life ■ of. the. East; and te speak a few inspiriting 1 words to those who are working.: amidst 1* \ maiiy ■ On ; 'my ...way..hoih(s L Canada.oii. behalf'of the Freo Chureh Council, , nnd try to co-ordinate the . religious work in the Dominion. I shall bo . away nine or ten months, so that',. all being well, I hope to ,be back in England by Christmas, 1909. Mrs. Meyer. accompanies me throughout tho tour."